Going by the title, you all thought I was going to write about a huge white bear of a questionable sexual orientation, huh? Well, no. Not so much.
If you know anybody who knows anybody who knows somebody who has bipolar disorder, then you yourself have asked or you have heard someone else ask, "Why don't they take their medicine?"
By now, we all know someone for whom "nutty" is the overall consensus. If the one of this description is someone with money, we do not call that person "nutty." We call them "eccentric." I am unsure as to why we do this. It is not like the wealthy need more breaks in this life. Nevertheless, it is probable, possible, or likely that this person has Bipolar Disorder and is not medicated.
Having bipolar disorder affects so many areas of my life. It affects my sleep, mood, mind, energy, thought processes, sense of well-being, and much more. The fact that I am entirely too overwhelmed to try and effectively complete this sentence speaks to the status of my disposition.
With no segue or boisterous musical introduction, we come to medicating my disorder. I take my medicine for now. I have taken it for the past few months, as soon as the diagnosis was made, and I wonder if I hate them.
I miss the mania. I miss the colors, the sounds, the breathless wide-eyed optimistic love of life, the supersonic energy, the courage to pester strangers in public, and the visible sparks of inspiration. I miss me.
I am still not as perky as one on anti-depressants could or should be.
Catherine B. of San Francisco says, “It has literally taken years to get the right combinations of medications so that I can live my life with as few side effects as possible."
Article comments
1 - Daniel Haszard
Zyprexa has generated a lot of bad press for Eli Lilly and they still have unresolved Zyprexa settlement claims.
Eli Lilly is reaping the whirlwind for unethical marketing of Zyprexa that has caused suffering and deaths.
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Daniel Haszard Zyprexa patient who got diabetes from it.
2 - Dr. Juliann Mitchell, PhD
Ginae,
Thanks so much for sharing, who better to write about BPD and medication compliance/non-compliance than you who are faced with these very issues. Please keep us updated on how it's going for you.
Best wishes,
Juliann
3 - Marcia Neil
All relatives of the Perry family (remember Commodore Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie?) must take medication to survive/exist? Not so, we need freedom from the often very personal forays into our private lives from bookmaking interests, who wish to elicit family-history information about family members. Should we constantly pay extra telephone-company fees to block constant-calling strategies? No!
4 - Wayne Albright
Thank all of you like my self who are honest about taking our meds.
I dispise having to take Bupropion with my Lithium in the mornings to wake up and then Temazepam at night with my Lithium to go to sleep . Over the past 15 years the Lithium has been the only consistant medication that has seemed to help . The first 10 yrs. I felt like a ginnypig ; every 90 days blood work to monitor my Lithium , then any new thing they could think of or , come up with , or came out on the market .
5 - Ginae B. McDonald
Thanks everybody! I appreciate your comments.
6 - jamie
Yeah the reason why People don't take thier medicine because you get so f-cking fat!Which will make you more depressed if it packs on weight.I hate when people say wouldn't you rather feel better ?Yeah I would feel better if I didn't get fat from lithium or depacote.WTF can't these pharmicudical companies come up with a pill that gets you well but don't pack weigfht on.
7 - pschlu
why do you get fat? If you dont eat more, do you still gain weight?